About this lesson
This lesson is for music you can drop into an edit: a title cue, a bed under narration, a loop, or a song with lyrics. You'll make a 20-second instrumental title cue with ElevenLabs Music v2.5, check its length and that it has no words, then see the models for sections and songs: ElevenLabs Music Advanced v2.5, Minimax Music 3.0 and Google Lyria 3.5. The models and settings in this lesson are as of November 2026.
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- Get a cue, a bed, a loop or a song with the length, structure and vocals you asked for.
- Decide instrumental or vocals, exact or rough length, and where it sits before you write the prompt.
- Set duration in the model, not the prompt, and listen to every instrumental take alone, start to end.
Step by step with an agent, through the Scenario MCP (7 steps)Hide the steps
Connect the Scenario MCP
Connect your agent and sign in once at mcp.scenario.com. Then tell it which Scenario team and project to use, so every file lands there.
Decide the three things first
Instrumental or vocals, exact or rough length, and where the music sits. Give them to the agent in the brief; here a 20-second instrumental title cue that ends on a clean chord for the cut.
Brief the agent: the title cue
PromptMake a title cue with ElevenLabs Music v2.5 (model_elevenlabs-music-v2-5). Read model_schema_get first for the parameter names. Duration 20 seconds, instrumental on, output format Auto. Music description, word for word: Short warm orchestral title cue for an animated short about a lighthouse and its cat. 90 BPM, D major. Pizzicato strings and glockenspiel open for two bars, then a gentle clarinet melody over soft strings, a small swell at the midpoint, and a clean final chord on the tonic with a short natural decay. No fade-out. Instrumental only, no vocals, no choir, no spoken words. Quote the cost with a dry run first and wait for my go.Check the length and that it has no words
PromptWait for the job with jobs_wait and show me the cue with asset_display. Report its exact length. Then transcribe it with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe (model_google-gemini-3-5-transcribe): a clean instrumental returns no speech. Quote the cost with a dry run first and wait for my go.Accept or redo
Accept when the length matches the duration, the ending fits the cut, the tempo and mood match the brief and the transcript finds no speech. Reject a voice, choir or spoken word, a fade when you asked for a clean ending, or a long silence at the end.
A song with lyrics, if you need one
PromptMake the song with Google Lyria 3.5 (model_lyria-3-5), reading model_schema_get first. Prompt, word for word: Warm folk song about a lighthouse keeper and his cat. [0:00 - 0:08] solo glockenspiel, soft. [0:08 - 0:30] verse with acoustic guitar. [0:30 - 0:45] chorus, full band. Then, to compare, the same song with Minimax Music 3.0 (model_minimax-music-3-0), with these lyrics in its lyrics field, word for word, and a style prompt that names the genre, mood, instruments and voice: [Verse] The lamp goes on at six [Chorus] Up the stairs, the cat is there Transcribe each song with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe and check every sung word against the lyrics. Quote the cost with a dry run first and wait for my go.File and report
PromptCreate a collection for the music with the approved takes, and put each prompt in its asset's description. Report the models, the settings and every asset ID.
Step by step in the web app (7 steps)Hide the steps
Pick the music model
Create › Audio › the model name › View all models, tick Audio under Output and Music under Capabilities. Pick ElevenLabs Music v2.5 and click Use this model.
Describe the track, in order
In Music Description: genre and mood, tempo in BPM and key, two to four lead instruments, the structure, the ending, then the vocals (here none).
PromptShort warm orchestral title cue for an animated short about a lighthouse and its cat. 90 BPM, D major. Pizzicato strings and glockenspiel open for two bars, then a gentle clarinet melody over soft strings, a small swell at the midpoint, and a clean final chord on the tonic with a short natural decay. No fade-out. Instrumental only, no vocals, no choir, no spoken words.Set the length and the instrumental switch
Drag Duration (s) to 20, turn on Instrumental and leave Output Format on Auto. Click Generate and listen from start to end, with headphones.
Check the length and the ending
The card shows the take's length: 00:20, as set. Listen for a clean final chord with a short natural decay and no fade.
Check that it has no words
Create › Text › Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, Audio › Select from Library › the cue, Generate. A clean instrumental returns No intelligible speech; if it returns words, turn on Instrumental and remove lines that read like lyrics.
More control, with sections
ElevenLabs Music Advanced v2.5 builds a track from Song Sections, each with Text, Duration (s), Styles, Negative Styles and Context Adherence; Add Song Section adds the next. ElevenLabs Music Extend v2.5 continues a take you already like.
A song with lyrics
Minimax Music 3.0 takes the words in Lyrics, with [Verse] and [Chorus] tags, and the sound in Style prompt. Google Lyria 3.5 takes the whole song in one Prompt with each section's time range, and up to 10 reference images.
Prompt[Verse] The lamp goes on at six [Chorus] Up the stairs, the cat is there Warm folk song about a lighthouse keeper and his cat. [0:00 - 0:08] solo glockenspiel, soft. [0:08 - 0:30] verse with acoustic guitar. [0:30 - 0:45] chorus, full band.
